There is a large community behind the development of multi-touch tables and interfaces, in facets of both hardware and software. As we peruse the Internet, we’ve come across some great resources:
Community
- NUI Group
http://nuigroup.com/
Blogs
- Harry van der Veen’s Blog(co-founder NUI Group & Natural User Interface)
http://www.multitouch.nl/ - Multi-touch Dev Blog
http://iad.projects.zhdk.ch/multitouch/ - Touch Sensitive Desktop Blog - India Multi-touch
http://therealdesktop.blogspot.com/ - White Noise
http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/blog/
Software
- openCV Library
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/ - reacTIVision - cross-platform computer vision framework (with fiducial symbols)
http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/?software - touchLib Library
http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/ - touchLib Library Source
http://code.google.com/p/touchlib/ - AudioTouch
http://ssandler.wordpress.com/
Hardware
- LED Screen Design Applet
http://www.outgribe.com/jason/ftir/ftir.html - MTShop - Products for Multi-Touch Devices
http://www.lowres.ch/mts/ - Projector Central - Projection Calculator
http://www.projectorcentral.com/projection-calculator-pro.cfm - Unibrain - Fire-i digital cameras
http://www.unibrain.com
http://www.unibrain.com/Products/VisionImg/Fire_i_BC.htm
Tutorials
- Building a FTIR surface (pictures)
http://www.digitalstratum.com/programming/ftir_build - FTIR Building Guide
http://lowres.ch/ftir/ - Instructables - Interactive Multitouch Display
http://www.instructables.com/id/Interactive-Multitouch-Display
Videos
- Johnny Chung Lee - Wii Remote
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ - Perceptive Pixel Large Screen Demo
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid713271701 - Reactable - Multi-Touch Musical Instrument
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPG-LYoW27E&NR - TED Talks - Jeff Han: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
Community Projects
- 180 - Consulting Multi-touch
http://www.timroth.de/180/ - Chess Synthesis
http://maniaxmemori.net/log/index.php?tag/chessynthesis - Etiquette Table
http://etiquette.surfacepressure.net/ - Interactive Social Soundmachine
http://www.iam-online.nl/ - Jontse.com Multi-Touch Project
http://www.jontse.com/Multitouch_Interface - reactable
http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/ - Recipe Table
http://www.recipetable.net/ - Tangible Table
http://www.tangibletable.de/